Low key, quiet, spaced. Imagine it's 1957, at the planetarium in San Francisco with its extensive sound system, under the sponsorship of radio station KPFA and the California Academy of Sciences. Because it was.

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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: the old radio show portion of the evening.
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X - 1

The Parade

Originally broadcast May 1, 1955.

(no label)

The story: if you're a Martian, what's the best way to take over? Why, advertise, of course. An attack on the conformity of the 1950's and the uber role of advertising. The announcer: the cult announcer himself, Don Pardo.

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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 4: loud, even snotty rock.
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Sourvein

bangleaf (track 1)
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will to mangle

Southern Lord

Heavy, loud, slow hardcore.

Youth Brigade

Barbed Wire (CD #1, track 6)
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Twenty Years Of Dischord (various artists)

Dischord

Heavy & reverbed, sometimes slow, sometimes faster.

Slant 6

What Kind Of Monster Are You? (CD #2, track 12)
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Twenty Years Of Dischord (various artists)

Dischord

Sort of poppy punk.

Butthole Surfers

ricky (side 1, track 3)
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Double Live Album

Latino Bugger Veil

Deep, heavy garage rock. From 1989?

Hands Of Time

Tears Me In Two (track 2: begun at -3:11)
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The Great Stems Hoax (various artists)

Off The Hip

Definite homage to 1960's garage rock, with a definite feel of "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone".

Nation of Ulysses

Spectra Sonic Sound (CD #2, track 4)
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Twenty Years Of Dischord (various artists)

Dischord

Getting faster...

Smogtown

Domesticviolenceland (track 10)
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Old Skars & Upstarts 2002 (various artists)

Disaster

Solid, medium tempo punk.

Forgotten

American Rock'n'Roll Rebellion (track 19)
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Old Skars & Upstarts 2002 (various artists)

Disaster

Heavy, medium tempo, and you feel like singing along.

Agnostic Front

I Had Enough (track 2)
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Riot Riot Upstart

Epitaph

Medium+ tempo. Agnostic Front in fine form.

N.O.T.A.

Sick Society (track 2)
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Live At The Crystal Pavillion

Prank

Ever faster, the set nears its conclusion. From 1983.

Untouchables

Nic Fit (CD #1, track 2)
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Twenty Years Of Dischord (various artists)

Dischord

Short n' fast.

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Les Chakachas

Love is like a Violin (track 4)

Arriba!

RCA International

Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 5: Psych, from delicate & beautiful to heavy psych rock.
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Cul de Sac

Blues In E (track 9: begun at -9:43)
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Immortality Lessons

Strange Attractors

Delicate, quiet, beautiful.

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ST 37

Flea flicker (track 7)
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Frantic Search For Zero

ST 37

Getting a harder sound, but relatively relaxed and slowly outer-spaced.

Matching Mole

March Ides II (track 7)
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Smoke Signals

Cuneiform

Druggy and a bit lush, spaced and reverbed blues, very easy going. Recorded live in Europe, 1972.